AIDS TRAINS BY RADIO; Amateur Acts as Dispatcher When Snow Ties Up Lines

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When all means of communication were silenced on the M-K-T railroad lines recently because of sleet and snow, Bill Bonnell, Fort Worth, Texas, amateur radio operator and American Airlines pilot, stepped in as a special "dispatcher" to broadcast from his radio station important train orders that helped keep freight and passenger trains operating nearly on schedules, says The M-K-T Magazine. View Full Article in Timesmachine »